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BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Milky Moor posted:

Who wants to buy me that terrible Skywarriors book by that Liberal MP?

It's for art.

what level of irony are we talking, here

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I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Milky Moor posted:

Who wants to buy me that terrible Skywarriors book by that Liberal MP?

It's for art.

Rono felt that he just had to relieve himself. He violently pulled Yasmine’s blouse buttons apart, completely ignoring her protests. Yasmine didn’t believe in wearing bras; in fact, she really didn’t need to, her breasts were still as firm as they had been in her late teens.
Rono massaged her small, soft brown breasts, luxuriating in the silky complexion of the skin.
He took a nipple in his mouth and gently bit on it. Yasmine’s nipple hardened and she moaned with excitement. He moved his hand up her inner thigh he felt the warm wetness with his hand. He moved his hand inside her.
“Yes,” she moaned. “Do it now, please, don’t wait any longer.”
She pulled his trousers off, ripped the underpants off excitedly and took him in her mouth. This was one of the rewards that Rono so enjoyed, the fruits of his victory.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Was he simply trying to throw attention off the terrible mismanagement that was what passed for government in Indonesia, much as the Argentinean regime had done to divert attention with the Falklands debacle in 1982? That was a distinct possibility. Was he looking to bring a halt to the Balkanisation of Indonesia?

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
To put it crudely, with that first mission you will be breaking your cherry. Just like the first you were with a man, where you were nervous and tremulous, but things ended up fine. Sure, you feel excitement and anticipation every time you are with someone new, but it is never quite the same as that first time.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Garibaldi stroked Jenny’s back, loving the smooth, silky texture of her skin. He moved his lips from her lips to her cheeks, her chin, then to her neck…
The night was one of a voyage of gentle and passionate discovery; a night that neither would forget in a hurry.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
In bed beside him, Yasmine disturbed his thoughts. “Rajiv how are things really going? You get the information on the news, and I know better than to simply rely on the rhetoric that passes for news.”
Rono gave it a little thought. Instead of answering her question, he reached for her, and pulled her close to him. He kissed her very hard on the mouth, and felt her lips open under his, and felt her tongue searching for his mouth….
Later, as they lay in the afterglow of their sexual tryst, he decided that he would lay most of it out for her.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
I won’t ruin how the book ends but let me tell you, it involves a Queensland beach, a disturbing description of a woman in a one-piece swimsuit and a Bob Dylan quote.

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
Chills

iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

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Suddenly doing my actual work seems a lot less depressing.

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop
So while their four stooges are in the Lebanese legal system one wonders who the corporate masters at Channel Nine are and what the gently caress they are doing. According to former Foreign Affairs official Bruce Haig:

http://www.looppng.com/content/60-minutes-crew-be-charged

quote:

Former senior Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh, who served in several Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran, said the key to Channel Nine getting its employees out of Lebanon was to apologise profusely. "You need to grovel," Mr Haigh told AM. "You need to go and make an abject apology to the Lebanese Government and you need to say, 'Look, we made a huge error, a bad error of judgement and we really apologise for what's occurred.' "Nothing short of that will get these people out." A spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said Australian consular staff in Beirut were continuing to provide ongoing consular assistance.

Was there a criminal conspiracy on Australian soil? More interestingly who decided to go with Child Abduction Recovery International Run by the noted chancer Adam Whittington. His organisation will be bad mouthed by anyone who operates in this shadowy area of legality. There is even a home grown company http://www.childrecoveryaustralia.com/ who has a much better reputation than Whittington's :australia: Was this a dodgy deal done dirt cheap? All indication are: Yes, yes it was.

Perhaps it is time for ACMA to actually step up for once rather than spraying its scant resources around chasing complains by the LNP against the ABC. Would suspending Nine's license for a day send a sufficiently strong message? It's hard to imagine what anything less would achieve.

-/-

The LNP are having a very hard run at trying to keep the narrative straight. The whole 'ASIC beats a Royal Commission' has done nothing more than shine a bright light into probably one of the (many) places the LNP does not want any illumination what so ever. Perhaps they are hoping to exploit the upcoming (May 13) end of current incumbent head Greg Medcraft to shuffle in an even more obvious sock puppet. Maybe Ray Hadley has some spare time. The soon to exit head has a solid 'street cred' (http://theconversation.com/why-has-asics-turn-on-the-global-stage-been-ignored-71900 but appears to have not gotten many runs actually on the board. He was a (worst treasurer ever)Wayne Swan appointment so perhaps that is sin enough, and justification enough to put in someone truly cringe worthy. Which just begs the question: How can ASIC be superior to a Royal Commission (A laughable claim in any case) when the head is appointed by the Treasurer of the day? If it is run now on the previously sacrosanct basis of proper, fit for the job, executive appointments based on merit rather than politics, throwing them into the center of the hurly burly would almost instantly politicise the role.

But you have to laugh. Today, long term LNP target, turncoat Palmer was being pilloried for his Nickel company financial antics and ASIC was firmly in the sights of Palmers haters. http://www.smh.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/clive-palmer-referred-to-asic-over-queensland-nickel-collapse-20160411-go42b5.html The haters are all up in arms that ASIC wasn't more proactive. The matter has only now been brought before them and an investigation (should one occur) is yet to commence. This isn't the big tough strong arm of prudent impartial oversight this is the fig leaf of convenience.

So Mr Right Wing LNP nutter, ASIC Good or Bad? It can't be both. Or can it?

-/-

The Arts

What the lolbertarians can not fathom is how you can have an exam which is ,say, compose a poem about a waterfall and then have someone give it a mark. This doesn't fit the logical positivist reductionist view of the world. Black is Black and White is White. There are 0's and there are 1's. In a maths exam the right answer is, by definition, right. How can two poems be judged against one another? Yes there are some broad guidelines that might satisfy the reductionist view but modern poetry has shown that some of the finest poems can be the very ones that break the rules in often format breaking ways. More over the writer of the better poem hasn't been elevated above the writer of the lesser poem in some clearly definable way. It is all soft edges and shades of grey.

Which is why it is fascinating, if you have the opportunity to study academics at work, to compare the way the average science faculty and the typical arts faculty are governed. The science faculties tend to have a thin veneer of proper and merit based process but in reality are a cartel of the people who are most acceptable to the hierarchy all hell bent on pursuing the 'one true vision' of who ever is leading the research. This is the nature of specialisation. The arts faculties suffer from the same pressures but nobody alludes to this being due and proper. The emperors clothes are known and given the proper consideration. So it is that a Phd student in the Arts may routinely submit work that directly affronts the Arts faculty hierarchy and still expect to be given marks based on the merit of their actual work while a Phd student in the Science would suddenly not be able to find a supervisor.

We live in a world of grey that lolbertarians insist is black and white. Science deals well with black and white (which is why ultimately lolbertarians resort to authoritarian legalism) but usually does terribly with grey. The arts is all about the grey and leads to a closer understanding of the world that we experience, or at least admits of the tools to do so.

Cartoon fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Apr 13, 2016

Negligent
Aug 20, 2013

Its just lovely here this time of year.
Dennis Jensen is no Ian Callinan

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Garibaldi stroked Jenny’s back, loving the smooth, silky texture of her skin. He moved his lips from her lips to her cheeks, her chin, then to her neck…
The night was one of a voyage of gentle and passionate discovery; a night that neither would forget in a hurry.

what's security chief michael garibaldi doing in this story

is there a time travel crossover involved?

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
My favorite part of the epic is when some military officer thinks to himself 'I sure wish we hadn't signed that drat treaty forbidding anti-personnel mines'.

It's like something out of that terrible Salvation War story that floats around the net.

open24hours
Jan 7, 2001

quote:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/fed...411-go3qso.html

"Either we can't spell, or they can't read," traditional owner Vince Forrester says of the thousands of tourists who scale Uluru each year, against the wishes of local Aboriginal people.

"There are all these [signs in] different languages asking 'please don't climb'. I feel disappointed that they really haven't got it yet."

Despite the spiritual significance of Uluru, Environment Minister Greg Hunt has no plans to stop people climbing the rock.

The Turnbull government last week announced the privately run Big Uluru Trek would begin in August - a 100-kilometre five-day desert hike from Amata to Uluru that would provide a new tourist drawcard and boost investment. It raised the prospect that the controversial rock climb might finally be banned.

The climb traces the route taken by the ancestral Mala men on their arrival at Uluru, and traditional owners consider that tourists who take the walk are disrespecting this spiritual significance.

A 2010 plan to manage the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park stated authorities would "work towards closure of the climb" for safety, cultural and environmental reasons.

However a spokesman for Environment Minister Greg Hunt on Tuesday said there were "no plans to change current arrangements".

In 2009 when in opposition, Mr Hunt reportedly said closing the rock to walkers "was on Labor's agenda", adding it would "end one of the great tourism experiences in Australia".

"Big Brother is coming to Uluru to slam the gate closed on an Australian tourism icon, the climb," he said.

His spokesman this week would not say if Mr Hunt still held that view.

The plan of management states the climb should permanently close when any of three conditions are met: fewer than 20 per cent of Uluru visitors make the ascent, enough new "visitor experiences" are established to replace it, or the climb is not the principal reason people choose to come to Uluru.

Climb numbers have fallen steadily over the past few decades. Between 2011 and 2015 the proportion of Uluru visitors scaling the rock "fluctuated" around 20 per cent, according to federal agency Parks Australia - equating to about 55,000 people last year. It did not provide year-on-year figures.

Parks Australia's own research has shown that 98 per cent of visitors would still visit Uluru if the climb closed. It said on Tuesday that more visitor activities would be announced.

People are becoming more aware - now we have to get the politicians and the bureaucrats to understand

Some 36 people have died climbing Uluru – the latest in 2010 – and more have been injured, causing grief to local Indigenous people who believe they have a duty of care to those visiting their country.

Mr Forrester said traditional owners were "very disappointed" the government would continue to allow tourists to keep clambering over Uluru, which he described as "the soul of the country".

"Uluru is sacred. People are becoming more aware - now we have to get the politicians and the bureaucrats to understand," he said, adding "when there's an accident, it turns my guts."

Big Run Events managing director Greg Donovan, who proposed the Big Uluru Trek, backed the push for the climb to eventually cease.

"It's seen to be very intrusive to spirits and stories and special places for people to climb on the rock," he said.

"By taking that away, I don't think it would impact very greatly on tourism at all."

This kind of thing really highlights that 'traditional owner' means just that. They traditionally owned it, but they don't anymore.

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!

Milky Moor posted:

My favorite part of the epic is when some military officer thinks to himself 'I sure wish we hadn't signed that drat treaty forbidding anti-personnel mines'.

It's like something out of that terrible Salvation War story that floats around the net.

"the cruise missile hit Satan in the chest at 600 miles an hour" one? because that owns actually. in the sequel they go to heaven and kill God with a nuke because gently caress God.

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Jumpingmanjim posted:

I won’t ruin how the book ends but let me tell you, it involves a Queensland beach, a disturbing description of a woman in a one-piece swimsuit and a Bob Dylan quote.

Jesus Christ are you alright m8

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

thatbastardken posted:

"the cruise missile hit Satan in the chest at 600 miles an hour" one? because that owns actually. in the sequel they go to heaven and kill God with a nuke because gently caress God.

That's precisely it.

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe
It had a lot of descriptions of guns.

Negative Entropy
Nov 30, 2009

http://www.couriermail.com.au/busin...-story-comments

Danger, Courier Mail.

BUT WAIT!

Its finally coming around to the floating turds that there is an endemic problem with our yoof, and no its not that theyre lazy and entitled like we've said for the last decade but maybe we're not giving them a go, and heres a graph to prove it, they have a lack of experience and employers are not employing them so they remain unemployed. Holy poo poo guys this is an actual problem... What do you think comments?

Mike posted:

As an employer it is better business value to employ people with a track record of work that you can depend upon for delivering results. Difficult for young people to compete with this due to lack of skills and work history.

The incentive for employers has effectively been taken away by the Labor Part insisting on removing the competitive advantage for this group of people. Junior introductory Rates, Penalty Rates minimum required hours etc.

This provided incentive for employers to take a risk with young people. This incentive is no longer there

Martyn posted:

To many kids want top jobs within their career without starting at the bottom and digging holes to gain life skills. School teachers are a classic example.University into the class room with no life experiences. Should go out and get a normal job for 2 or 3 years before teaching

Steve posted:

Maybe they shouldn't change their jobs every 5 minutes, have Gap years, travel at the drop of a hat,and generally overly high expectations of they're worth.

Employers want reliable workers. Not children who haven't yet graduated into adults..

Rightist John posted:

"But it may be the government’s policies that are actually keeping people out of work." But it isn't , in the case of the boys they are mainly lazy and have unreal expectations of their worth, the girls are a lot better and well worth employing in most cases.
::Cate @Rightist John

Until the girls want maternity leave etc.


Yep, you're regurgitating what we've been spinning for years. Good job.

Negligent
Aug 20, 2013

Its just lovely here this time of year.
As an employer :smugdon:

Negative Entropy
Nov 30, 2009

thatbastardken posted:

"the cruise missile hit Satan in the chest at 600 miles an hour" one? because that owns actually. in the sequel they go to heaven and kill God with a nuke because gently caress God.

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=117679&start=150&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
Original thread.

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=118769
Table of Contents

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=134411
Pantheocide. Part 2.


Its actually a drat decent read.
(As far as speculative fan-fiction goes.)

Negative Entropy fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Apr 14, 2016

Mr Chips
Jun 27, 2007
Whose arse do I have to blow smoke up to get rid of this baby?

Cartoon posted:

compare the way the average science faculty and the typical arts faculty are governed. The science faculties tend to have a thin veneer of proper and merit based process but in reality are a cartel of the people who are most acceptable to the hierarchy all hell bent on pursuing the 'one true vision' of who ever is leading the research. This is the nature of specialisation. The arts faculties suffer from the same pressures but nobody alludes to this being due and proper. The emperors clothes are known and given the proper consideration. So it is that a Phd student in the Arts may routinely submit work that directly affronts the Arts faculty hierarchy and still expect to be given marks based on the merit of their actual work while a Phd student in the Science would suddenly not be able to find a supervisor.

I guess all my peers/friends/acquatinances who got exactly the same lovely treatment, exploitation, harrassment, bullying, in their arts/humanities RHD as the STEM people did in theirs were just imagining it then.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Cartoon posted:

Which is why it is fascinating, if you have the opportunity to study academics at work, to compare the way the average science faculty and the typical arts faculty are governed. The science faculties tend to have a thin veneer of proper and merit based process but in reality are a cartel of the people who are most acceptable to the hierarchy all hell bent on pursuing the 'one true vision' of who ever is leading the research. This is the nature of specialisation. The arts faculties suffer from the same pressures but nobody alludes to this being due and proper. The emperors clothes are known and given the proper consideration. So it is that a Phd student in the Arts may routinely submit work that directly affronts the Arts faculty hierarchy and still expect to be given marks based on the merit of their actual work while a Phd student in the Science would suddenly not be able to find a supervisor.
Source your quotes, dude

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

Kommando posted:

Its actually a drat decent read.

what the gently caress

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.
Shut the gently caress up forever you disgusting old perv Tony Abbott

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug

Solemn Sloth posted:

Shut the gently caress up forever you disgusting old perv Tony Abbott

gently caress what did he say/do this time?

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

and My Daddy reads the Courier Mail

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.
That poor kid doesn't have any lunch :ohdear:

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe

GoldStandardConure posted:

gently caress what did he say/do this time?

Complimented the female year 12 student he was spotted surfing next to "very attractive and very, very talented"

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.
"Extremely attractive"

The kid is 17 years old.

Seagull
Oct 9, 2012

give me a chip

Skellybones posted:

Complimented the female year 12 student he was spotted surfing next to "very attractive and very, very talented"

how many times has he done this now

Solemn Sloth
Jul 11, 2015

Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Seagull posted:

how many times has he done this now

In general or just that have made the papers cause I can't imagine him going a day without drooling over some children

G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Tony "Helllooooooo Nurse" Abbutt

Pickled Tink
Apr 28, 2012

Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.



Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.
Fun Shoe
First Dog:



Kittens:



Yesterday another cat there gave birth. So Even more kittens for you all:



And what the gently caress? Another cat there is having kittens (At time of posting, though she is having a long break between them). Here you go:

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug

Skellybones posted:

Complimented the female year 12 student he was spotted surfing next to "very attractive and very, very talented"

god drat it

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe
Don't blame Tony, it's all he knows.

MaliciousOnion
Sep 23, 2009

Ignorance, the root of all evil

Solemn Sloth posted:

"Extremely attractive"

The kid is 17 years old.

Why is her age important?

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

Kat Delacour posted:

Tony "Helllooooooo Nurse" Abbutt

It's time for Govern-maniacs
We're gonna cut corporate tax!

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Negligent
Aug 20, 2013

Its just lovely here this time of year.
he has bad vision in one eye, cut him some slack

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